Saturday, April 20, 2024
According to the apostle Paul, the Christian “faith is futile,” without the Resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:17, English Standard Version). One reason Paul gives for this is that believers’ only hope for being resurrected themselves is that Jesus came back to life (1 Corinthians 15:12-23). He also declares that apart from […]
God created humans so that they were “very good,” but people choose to rebel against him. Paul writes in Romans that “All have sinned,” and “the wages of sin is death,” which means that every human deserves eternal death in Hell, and no one is capable of earning forgiveness (Romans […]
The Bible shows that only the innocent can make up for guilty peoples’ wrongs, and since God alone is perfect, the only way for anyone to be forgiven is if God became human and bore their sins (see https://clay.at-tps.org/2021/10/11/jesus-the-only-way/). This is exactly what Jesus claimed to have come to do […]
The Bible makes a bold claim by ascribing the creation of “all things” to God (Colossians 1:16, English Standard Version). Often, this claim are dismissed as religious fiction. Yet, everything must have begun somehow. The alternative theory, evolution, needs no creator, suggesting instead that everything came from accidents. It claims […]
God, the amazing creator of all the universe, made people for a relationship with him. The first people lived in communication with God. But Adam and Eve decided that, despite God giving them everything they needed, they wanted more. After disobeying God, Adam and Eve were no longer perfect – […]